Tahira Kashyap detected with Stage 0 breast cancer

Actor Ayushmann Khurranas wife Tahira Kahyap has announced on Instagram that she recently underwent a prophylactic mastectomy. She wrote that her post was dedicated to ‘awareness, self love and resilience’.

Tahira urged women to get themselves checked. “I am 35, and I was returned twice over from a mammogram. If any symptoms come up, think of it as a protective force and get yourselves examined,” she wrote.

 “I was detected with DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my right breast with high grade malignant cells. this is “stage 0 cancer/ pre-cancerous stage, with cancer cells multiplying in a contained area.”

Tahira a writer and Ayushmann were childhood sweethearts. They have two children, son Virajveer, born in 2012 and daughter, Varushka, born in 2014.